Transformable motor-car body



Now 25, 1930. F. LOPEZ-OSORIO 1,782,998

TRANSFORNABLE MOTOR CAR BODY Filed Sept. 28, 1928 FELL-IX LOPEZ OSORIO INVENTOR '5 ATTORNEY.

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invention relates to a convertibletype sis and being further provided with cut-in rearldoors to accommodate the rear fend ers, and has particularreference to the construction and arrangement of a collapsible roofand sidewall frame which, in anyof' its positoins, open orclosed, will give no intimation that thecar is'convertible.

This invention is a further development of an invention described in Letters Patent No. 1,772,672 issued to 11113011 August 12, 1930. i i i I v "The invention has for its object toprovide al'convertible vehicle body of the char acter hereinafter described, which includes a required overall length of the framewliencollapsible frame :capable of folding into a pocketin the body below the side door open ings, whichpocket is limited in .itslength to a dimension considerably shorter'than the in its up position to support a full length available storage space.

i a perspective view of one side, of the body. showing the rear door opening andthe' lon i I accomplish this objectby meansof an arrangement which consists briefly in a car body havingits rear doors cut away to accommodate the curve of therear mudguards andthe storagespace between the front and rear mudguards, as a consequence, is insufficient to accommodate the longitudinal beams-of thereof. It is therefore, contemplated to construct the "longitudinal J beams of the roof in thenmanner. ofa telescope, so that the same may be collapsed to a dimension which can be accommodated by the Oneembodiment of the invention is illustratively exemplified in the "accompanying drawings, in which,Fi-gure 1 is a side elevationalviewofacar havlng a convertible.

body showing the top erected; Figure 2'is gitudinal beam in folded position and arranged in thestorage spacejbeneath the door I opening and between the mudguardsg, and- "Figure 3- is a perspective view' of the'longitudinal' beam in its extended position.

QReferring to the drawings, 10 denotes a car body ofthe double phaeton type" in that at as jjmlidguards ll was the cornerbf the rear door opening 12, the .i'ront mudguard 13 beingprovided at its lower end adjacent the running board-14, with a pocket for-the purpose hereinafter-described. The

'rearjwall 15 of vthe "body beyond lthelrear opening12 'is divided tofaccommodate the j uprlght rear arm 4 of a U-shaped longitudinal beam called a swing 5. The free end of the arm 4 is provided with apin 3 which projects at right anglesto the arm in a rear ward direction and into an opening 16 in the rear wall 15,: as illustrated in Figure 2. In closed position, i. e. the top being down,

the arm 4 hangs downwardly from pin 3 and is accommodated in a cutout 17 in the floor board 18', andiat its lower endbelow' the board 18, the M1114 is provided with a extending lnto an opening 20- in the end of the cross beam of thes wing 5. The door 21 is supported on hinges 22 and swings over the outside of the arm 4, which as previously described, is accommodated in the space be: tween the sides of the rear wall 15. i

- To erect the top,the swing is turned on the pin 3 to bring the beam 5 above thebodg, ar s whereupon the arm .4 is extended tow the rear until the beam 5l covers the distance between a and 6, see Figure l. The ,coverpin 19 projecting at right angles thereto and i ingis stretched in positionbetween 0 and 'b,

e the area between 0 and a being unsupported except at "the ends 6 of the swingfand the upper corners of the windshield frame 23.

To provide more spacethan existsbetween the two mudguards 11 and 13, the front'guard 13 isprovided with apocket 24,which forms the terminal for the front endfof the box or, storage space 1, arranged beneath the door openings to accommodatethe'folded flexible covering whenthe-frame is lowered; i Hav1ng,now described my lnvention, what I. claim and desire to secure by Letters P i q r p ent, is-z' 1. 111a "convertible automobile =bodyzcomt i prisin'ga side wall having anopening therein and a floor board providedwith an openingp the combination therewith of aroof supj porting devicecomprising an extensible and contractlble beam designed to be moved lnto w mo e a and out of the opening in the floor board and a supporting frame for said beam having a member movably mounted in the opening in the side wall, whereby said beam may be swung upwardly into roof supporting position or downwardly out of such position.

2. In a convertible automobile body comprising a side wall having an opening therein and a floor board provided with an opening, the combination therewith of a roof support ing device comprising a beam designed to be moved into and out of the opening in the floor board and a supporting frame for said beam, said supporting frame comprising a. member telescopically corelated to one end of said beam, a second member movably supported in the opening in the side wall and a third member connecting said two frame members to each other, whereby said beam may be swung upwardly into roof supporting position or downwardly out of such position.

FELIX LOPEZ-OSORIO. 

